The Demonstration Gardens of Wagga Wagga, on Shaw Street, have been running since 2001. It's open to anyone in the community and volunteers work at the organic garden on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday of each week.

They work under the guidance of Jim Rees, co-ordinator of the Demonstration Gardens.

"I don't do very much gardening anymore, I mostly do the supervision of our great volunteers," he said.

"I'm pretty pleased to do that because you don't want to waste volunteers' time. You've got to plan ahead so you get good outcomes for the gardens and for them," he said.

Michelle Crocker has been involved with the community garden since its initial planning stage. While she doesn't make it to the garden every week, she's committed to helping out whenever she can.

"I love growing my own food and I love seeing communities growing their own food. I think it's important to keep connected with the earth and with your food source," she said.

Nigel Yang, a musician, has been volunteering at the Demonstration Gardens for seven weeks.

He is visiting Wagga Wagga for 10 weeks, accompanying his wife who is completing an internship at the local hospital and currently volunteers two days a week.

"I have never done anything like this before - gardening or building - but as soon as I stepped in here, I felt like it was a place I could spend a couple of days," he said.

"I'm doing really simple things but it's been great working with your hands and outdoors. It's been so cool."

Nigel has already found a community garden in Marrickville, Sydney which he plans to check out upon his return home.

On Tuesdays, a pizza lunch marks the end of the working day with many volunteers arriving at 8am, or earlier, to beat the afternoon heat.

The volunteers, along with some workers who take their lunch break at the gardens, bring various ingredients for the pizzas, which are cooked in the garden's woodfired oven.

"It's a really lovely time because we do a bit of debrief about what we've been doing," Jim said.

"It's also nice for people who are working who come here for lunch. They get to meet some people and find out what's happening in the gardens and stay in touch with things."